“well, i'm not a poet, i'm just a woman. and as a woman there’s no way for me to make my own money, not enough to earn a living or to support my family and if i had my own money (which i don’t) that money will belong to my husband the moment we got married and if we had children, they would be his not mine, they would be his property so don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition because it is.” i’m sad for amy and the concept of “coverture law” she referred to in this scene is a real legal doctrine applied by the European and mostly Western countries, especially countries that adhere to the Common Law legal system (English customary law), this system has been in affect for centuries and is the basis of social structure that shackles women’s economic rights in Europe and United States. and my point is, none of this regulation based on religion, most contemporary islam.